Felger: So here’s what here’s my developing opinion, it’s really I’m starting to consider it, and I never thought I would, and it’s beneath me, frankly.
Mazz: “Developing consideration”.
Felger: A developing consideration…is keeping the platoon going in the playoffs. You know, every year we would get that call. Every year. Tuukka Rask and Jaroslav Halak had a couple of good years when he was the backup, remember? And there was a couple of years where there was like, now I’m forgetting who the backups were.
Mazz: Khudobin.
Felger: Khudobin was another one. Yes, there were a couple of years where Rask and Anton Khudobin, Rask and Halak, and there might even have been another one in there somewhere, where they were both pretty good. And it had gotten to a point where we had this track record on Tuukka Rask where we didn’t trust him, he would wear down with too much work and so, “hey, why not just platoon him in the playoffs like you platoon them in the regular season?”, and every time a caller would suggest that we jump down their throats because you don’t do that in the postseason, you dummy, that’s not how it’s done. In the postseason you don’t platoon goalies, you bench them. So I don’t know why I’m considering it now, like I’m kind of considering it. And now it’s occurred to me why I’m considering it.
Mazz: I know why you’re considering it…
Felger: I don’t fully trust Ullmark. And Swayman, I thought, had a bad night at home against Edmonton a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t like that game.
Mazz: He wasn’t good in that game.
Felger: But other than that, he’s been really good. And it’s like I just, you know, the Stanley Cup playoffs, it’s two months and four seven game series, every other night, whatever else is going on, you got to block it out, grind it out, just be singularly focused and mentally tough and physically tough and some sort of animal to do the thing. Which is what Tim Thomas was, which is what Tuukka Rask was not, sorry everybody he just wasn’t. And so you sort of need that thing and I don’t know. And Linus Ullmark was the goalie last year. He got benched and they finished with Swayman and it wasn’t much of a difference, but I don’t know, I guess I’m a little concerned about Linus Ullmark.
